Hicks, a minor league baseball broadcaster for the past 20 seasons, begins his fourth season as the Hooks radio broadcaster and Director of Media Relations.

Matt came to Corpus Christi from El Paso, Texas, where for 10 years he worked as the Director of Broadcasting for the El Paso Diablos.

Prior to his tenure as the “Voice of the Diablos,” Hicks worked for six seasons as the primary play-by-play voice of the Frederick Keys in the Advanced-A Carolina League. Matt’s professional broadcasting background also includes extensive college basketball play-by-play at the Division I level with Mount St. Mary’s College (six years), James Madison University, the University of Texas at El Paso and New Mexico State University (women’s program). Hicks also worked as the play-by-play announcer for the El Paso Buzzards professional ice hockey team during that club’s inaugural season.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, Matt was the only minor league announcer listed in Baseball America’s special reader’s survey of favorite baseball broadcasters around the country, published in March of 1997. A “Radio Sportscaster of the Year” winner in El Paso, Hicks also received favorable critical reviews by columnists in both The Baltimore Evening Sun and The Washington Post. Hicks can also be seen in the film “Major League II” as an extra in scenes featuring Bob Uecker, a.k.a. “Harry Doyle.”

Originally from Washington, D.C., Matt and his wife Estelle, a school teacher, live in Corpus Christi with their son Nathaniel. Matt also has a daughter, Amy.